Montreal
,
Quebec
,
the world
,
the Americas
,
the Arctic Circle
,
the Northern Hemisphere
,
the Canada 819 telephone code area
,
Lachine
,
Le Sud-Ouest
,
Ville-Émard
,
the EST/EDT region
,
Quebec Eastern Time region
,
the Commonwealth
,
the G8
,
the UK 'rest of the world' postal zone
,
US postal Group 1
,
the area using the NANP
,
North America

Did

die

Died

▶
2005
,
April 2005
,
April 5th 2005
,
the United States
,
North America
,
…

Massachusetts
,
New England
,
the world
,
the Americas
,
Northeastern United States
,
the Northern Hemisphere
,
Brookline, Massachusetts
,
Norfolk County, MA
,
the continental United States
,
the contiguous United States
,
the EST/EDT region
,
the G8
,
the area using the NANP
,
the US dollar zone
,
North America

Died During

2000s

Educated

Northwestern University
,
University of Chicago
,
University of Wisconsin-Madison

▶
"No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection."
,
"In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries."
,
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
,
"I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture."
,
"Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions."
,
…

"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."
,
"Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door."
,
"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."
,
"Conquered people tend to be witty."
,
"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."
,
"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."
,
"A man is only as good as what he loves."
,
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
,
"A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study."
,
"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."

Residence

Montreal

Won

Nobel Prize in Literature
,
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
,
National Book Award
,
National Medal of Arts

Wrote

▶
The Adventures of Augie March
,
Herzog
,
Henderson the Rain King
,
Humboldt's Gift
,
Seize the Day
,
…